Java Posse #362 - Newscast for Aug 25th 2011

Newscast for Aug 25th 2011 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Carl and Dick headed to JavaZone Google moderator for the event - make your own suggestion for topic or question, or vote someone else's up or down. http://tinyurl.com/possejz11 Google buys Motorola Mobility for $12.5bn, an estimated 63% premium over the stock price at the time of purchase. http://www.bgr.com/2011/08/15/google-to-acquire-motorola-mobility-for-12-5-billion/ http://www.bgr.com/2011/08/15/google-ceo-larry-page-explains-reasoning-behind-motorola-acquisition-spoiler-patents/ http://www.google.com/press/motorola/quotes/ http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/when-patents-attack-android.html http://mashable.com/2011/08/16/google-motorola-poll/ http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/google-joins-microsoft-motorola-patent-dispute/?cs=48269 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/17/2142203/Judge-Dismisses-Googles-Complaint-Over-Android-Code-Viewing http://gigaom.com/2011/08/12/ubuntus-shuttleworth-patents-misunderstood-misused-outdated/ http://thisismynext.com/2011/08/11/broken-patent-system/ http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SoftwarePatent.html HP pulls TouchPad after only 7 weeks, offers refunds to existing customers, but is WebOS dead? http://lifehacker.com/5832333/hp-shutting-down-operations-for-touchpad-and-webos-phones http://www.webosarena.com/2011/08/22/best-buy-pulls-hp-touchpad-from-u-s-stores-hp-to-refund-early-buyers/ http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/rumors-of-webos-death-are-greatly-exaggerated-20110819/ Quick News The JCertif conference is fast approaching. http://www.jcertif.com/ Android A new report from security firm McAfee says that malware targeting android devices jumped 22% in the first half of this year. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/23/android-mobile-malware-target-_n_934088.html Google is halting their own development of App-Inventor for Android and releasing it as open source. http://www.androidguys.com/2011/08/10/googles-app-inventor-shuttered-released-open-source/ http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/08/16/2048207/App-Inventor-Continues-Life-at-MIT Android tablets managed to dent the Apple iPad market share by 20% over the past 12 months in aggregate across all Android tablets, but no single tablet vendor has stood out as a challenger to Apple. http://www.bgr.com/2011/08/12/android-steals-20-of-tablet-market-from-ipad-over-past-year/ Listener Feedback Strangeloop competition - the winners (any of these can contact Alex Miller: alex thestrangeloop com) to claim one or both tickets, on a first come, first served basis: Cedric Beust Kevin Wright Weiqi GaoCasper Bang Michael Barker JuanManuel Gimeno Illa John Kiparsky Sam Reid Plus a new competition, best picture with cowboy hat. Be creative. Prize is a pass to JavaOne in San Francisco: http://www.oracle.com/javaone/index.html Send entries to [email protected] Random Crap The new beta 14 of Google's Chrome browser now incorporates support for native clients. http://cloud.dzone.com/dose/daily-dose-chrome-14-beta http://code.google.com/chrome/nativeclient/ http://code.google.com/chrome/nativeclient/docs/technical_overview.html Thanks Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect Kirsty Doherty, Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork Theme Music: Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI), written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney. Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad. Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1) To contact us: Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse Pose a question on our Google Moderator group - http://tinyurl.com/q4javaposse Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465-4626 Or send us email - [email protected] The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall